Gluten-free baked items company Dr Schär gets get entry to to its first UK production facility with the acquisition of GDR Meals Era.
Circle of relatives-owned Dr Schär, headquartered in Burgstall within the northern Italian province of Bolzano, already provides the United Kingdom marketplace during the retail and foodservice channels, with merchandise starting from bread to rolls, pizza crusts, cookies and crackers.
GDR’s web page is situated in Bellshill in Scotland’s North Lanarkshire district bordering Glasgow.
“This deal is the primary of its type for us. It items a thrilling alternative to get into the recent bread marketplace and fuels our imaginative and prescient of being recognised by way of all consumers and shoppers as the number 1 logo in gluten-free,” Bradley Grimshaw, the managing director at Dr Schär UK, stated in a remark.
GDR additionally provides rolls, flatbreads and pizza bases beneath its Simply logo bought in Entire Meals Marketplace and impartial bakeries. Managing director Ronnie Stebbings and body of workers on the corporate will probably be retained. Monetary phrases weren’t disclosed.
Stebbings stated: “That is improbable information for us and we’re significantly excited to be a part of the Dr Schär workforce. The corporate has led the best way within the gluten-free sector, delighting consumers with their prime quality, scrumptious, protected and assured merchandise for years.”
Dr Schär began serving the United Kingdom marketplace in 2002 and gives bakery merchandise beneath its namesake logo and Glutafin. The industry has 16 manufacturing crops unfold throughout Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain and Turkey, and, outdoor of Europe, in the USA and Brazil.
Closing 12 months, the corporate introduced an funding to increase its sole US facility primarily based in New Jersey generating gluten-free bread and rolls for the home and Canadian markets.
Grimshaw added: “This transfer is ready to seriously spice up our presence in the United Kingdom and lengthen our experience throughout the gluten-free bread class. We will be able to now facilitate the release of clean bakery merchandise to enrich the present collection and give a boost to us in our strategic function of bakery management.
“We all know that increasingly more shoppers are in search of merchandise free-from allergens to satisfy their nutritional and way of life wishes. Our partnership with GDR will permit us to additional faucet into this rising call for.”
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